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Native multitouch support on Linux



Regular readers of this blog will know that, when it comes to operating systems, I'm a bit of a penguin fancier.

So with all the atttention being paid to touch screen interfaces (for Smartphones, but also Windows 7's apparent native support) don't think Linux is being left behind. Check out this video demoing recent developments.

Thanks to Slashgear for this one, detailing the work of a French development group at ENAC.

They have developed native multitouch using the Linux 2.6.30 kernel, and can support swipe, flip, rotate and pinch-resize gestures...

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